So last night, I had a realization. I was feeding the swamp-ghoul that lives in a trash can behind my garage when it hit me: it's October! My favorite month!...

Earlier this month, I took my dog for a walk on Mount Tabor. It has an off-leash dog park that’s so large, you can walk for five minutes without seeing anyon...

The monster from A Quiet Place should win an academy award. Its performance was amazing. Seriously. I remember the first time I saw it—a promising young acto...

Recently, I was invited back to my high school to speak with a creative writing class about indie publishing. It was a great experience. The thing I enjoyed ...

The Ritual, based on the novel by Adam Nevill, is one of those films that manages to accomplish a lot with very little. Everything about it seems grandiose o...

As a general rule of thumb, I try to write an hour every day. And because I, like many writers, have a nine to five job, it means I’m producing two types of w...

A lot of people might think twenty books is a pretty small goal. I kind of do too. But it’s surprising how much of life today is designed to distract us from...

Happy Halloween, yah GhOuLs! Here’s my first Instagram Book Review of Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism. An entire review in just one minute! Shout o...

It’s hard to believe that my new novel has been on sale for three months already. It feels like a lifetime ago that I was pressing publish on all the things:...

Enter for a chance to win one of three signed copies of my new novel, A Wall for Teeth and Stingers! When a swarm of bees begins trapping families inside the...

Here I am, 8:00am, sitting in one of the very coffee shops where I wrote A Wall for Teeth and Stingers, pouring over some of the amazing reviews for my new n...

So I’ve written this supernatural thriller. And—OK—on paper, the antagonist *appears* to be a dangerous, almost cognizant swarm of American honey bees. But t...

Hunting for View-Master merchandise is oddly cathartic. For me at least. Maybe it’s how I unwind and check out, because I’ve spent hundreds of hours wanderin...

I have trouble writing from home. I get distracted if I’m too comfortable. So I’ve always gotten my best work done in a public space—somewhere with a lot of w...

As a working writer, I’ve become obsessed with process. A couple years ago, I saw Dana Haynes speak as a guest author for Willamette Writers. That night he m...